Quite a busy and productive week. Looked at 16 jobs at work including a £35K contract (which is the upper end for us for one job), planted out the mini-farm, also got the latest Azores report nearly finished, had a couple of meetings including the new Beddington Farmlands Campaign spearheaded by the Wandle Valley Forum, visited the farmlands too and stayed at my mum's who had seven church friends from America crashing at hers, had a viewing on a prospective new base and the usual mothing in the garden and the mini-zoo stuff and all the usual blinking admin and paperwork (including the probate stuff), while meanwhile having to get it all done while being woken up by Isaac up to five times a night (teething) and then dealing with the tornadoes that are the boys during the day.
While travelling between here and London and between jobs it's a good time to listen to podcasts and lately I've been getting through the Green Finance Institute podcasts, keeping up with Dieter Helm's podcasts and been listening to stuff from Lex Fridman about AI and for pudding- some Taylor Swift pop tunes. I try and end every day with an hour or two (if I can stay awake) with Netflix (been watching How to get rich (actually quite a smart show on sound financial management for US citizens) and Black Knight this week). Books that arrived this week to read include Birds of Australia and Wildlife of Australia by Sam Woods & Co (Uni mate) and Isabella Tree's latest Wilding book and also bought old copies of Wilding and Derek Gow's book to get some more ideas of how to manage our Bulgaria plot and hopefully soon our new base.
A few recent pics:
Rough-winged Conch, NFY. Now on 92 for the year.
Light Brocade, NFY
Heart and Dart- NFY. The first of many. Also the first Orange Footman and Buff-tip have appeared now.
A bit of Treble Line variation- the most abundant moth at the moment with up to 15 a night
Another Cnephasia
Started planting out the mini-farm with started plants from Thame Market (above and below)
Jacob does two minutes work which I manage to capture on camera to create a good parenting myth pic
A rare moment when my mum isn't scorning me
We viewed this property this week in Oxfordshire- a nice cottage and one acre plot. Due to school placement issues we might need to stay local rather than move to the coast and also because of the bereavement and all our money being scavenged by inflation and interest rates (the Oligarchs are pulling their nets in) we can't afford to get anything much bigger than this. As usual the divine process is doing its thing and burning any grand plans of mine, which usually works out for the best
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